Chords for Tommy Emmanuel Lesson on The Music Row Show

But, you know, you were in this big rock band in the 80s.
How did you make that transition from what you're doing here tonight to the squealing
at guitar solos?
I was still doing this while I was doing that.
Really?
Oh, absolutely.
_ I've been playing this style since I was seven years old.
But, you know, I've played in rock bands, I've played in jazz bands, in funk bands,
I've been a drummer in [Gb] a band many times, I've [G] been a bass player in a band many times.
I wanted to work and I wanted experience.
So I could happily go from doing this to playing with Bob Seger or Chuck Berry or you name it.
Or I could go and jam with [F] Steve Vai, whatever.
I'm open to everything.
And I love to play all genres of music.
I don't say that I specialize.
I think probably what I specialize in is this style _ [E] _ and maybe gypsy jazz, you know, [Eb] that
kind of thing.
But [Bb]
the music that I love to play that [F] works so well as a soloist is the self-contained
music [G] where I can play the _ bass part like this.
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_ _ [G] And I can bring the rhythm in _ _
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_ Man!
[F] You know what I mean?
You can do a bit of that kind of thing.
And then when I play with a straight pick and I play something like Guitar Boogie, _ I
state [Bm] the melody.
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[E] And then I put it _ [Db] [B] back in.
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_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [E] And then I turn it into this.
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I've [Eb] just found a way of being able to do that.
And then I kind of break off into singing a line.
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_ _ _ _ I do that kind of stuff.
Then if I [Bb] want to [Bm] improvise, _ I just do this. _ _ _ _
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[E] I can't stop now, folks!
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_ Woo-hoo!
[Bb] And then if you want to make the sound of a wangba, you just bend the neck like [E] _ this.
[Em] Nice!
Top of the day, top of the day!
It goes snap, snap!
[Eb] And just like that, we've got to take another break.
We'll be back with more Tommy Emanuel [G] on the Music Show! _
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